Lucknow, June 25 -- Samajwadi Party termed Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati's unilateral announcement to end the alliance as 'good riddance'.
The SP also dismissed charges levelled by Mayawati against party president Akhilesh Yadav and his father Mulayam Singh Yadav as "frivolous and preposterous".
Soon after Mayawati announced that the BSP would contest the upcoming Assembly bypolls in UP on its own, sources in the SP said that the party was gearing up to challenge the Bharatiya Janata Party alone in UP.
"For two decades, we have contested all elections on our strength and we will continue to do so," said Samajwadi Party MP from Moradabad, ST Hasan.
Dismissing Mayawati's allegations that the SP president had asked her not to give tic...